Day 56: October 10, 2025 – Joshua 19-21 and Acts 19-21

We finish the section in Acts with a tease. Paul gets up to speak and our reading ends there. Joshua recounts the giving not only of the land but also of the livestock to the priests who were promised no land but were promised to be taken care of by the people of Israel. We also find mentioned the city of refuge for the person who killed someone but by mistake, he could then flee to a city of refuge and not be killed by the avenging family. It sounds like this may have happened a lot since this isn’t the first and only time that it is mentioned and since there were quite a few cities that carried this moniker.

Paul continues on his journeys on boat finding himself surrounded by mobs here and there and by disciples who would protect him from those said mobs by telling him which way to go and which city he was and was not to enter. But the underlying theme in all of this is the church grows, and grows, and continues to grow. The blessing of the Holy Spirit is not relegated to the first century. We see growth of the Christian church in most places in the world except, maybe, in the Western World. I believe there is a message there to the church in the Western World, in the developed world.